Derby's handling of NULL values

Question

I am new to Derby and I noticed that I face similar problems as when using the DB2 RDBMS as far as null values are concerned. The Derby documentation states, th

Answer 1

Maybe this solution helps you:

insert into T_AUTHOR (
    ID, 
    FIRST_NAME, 
    LAST_NAME, 
    DATE_OF_BIRTH, 
    YEAR_OF_BIRTH, 
    ADDRESS
) select 
    1000, 
    'Lukas', 
    'Eder', 
    '1981-07-10', 
    (select YEAR_OF_BIRTH from T_AUTHOR where true = false), 
    (select ADDRESS from T_AUTHOR where true = false) 
from SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1

This method does not require explicit cast of null, because inner select will return null with required type.